Pavement, Modest Mouse to headline Pitchfork

February 05, 2010|By Greg Kot

Modest Mouse and LCD Soundsystem will be announced Friday as headliners for the Pitchfork Music Festival July 16-18 in Union Park, organizers say. Modest Mouse will headline July 16, LCD Soundsystem on July 17 and a reunited Pavement, as previously reported, will top the weekend on July 18. Tickets ($40 or three-day $90 pass) for the fifth annual festival also go on sale at noon Friday via Pitchforkmusicfestival.com.

Also to be announced Friday are a few more of the approximately 40 acts to play the three-day event: Raekwon (July 17), and St. Vincent, Lightning Bolt, Cass McCombs, Here We Go Magic and Sleigh Bells (all July 18).